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List of Figures and Tables | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: The Public and Supreme Court Nominations | |
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Changes in Attitudes toward Judicial Institutions | |
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The Theory of Positivity Bias | |
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Outlining the Chapters That Follow | |
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Knowing about Courts | |
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Assessing Public Information about Law and Courts | |
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Empirical Evidence of Mass Ignorance | |
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Discussion and Concluding Comments | |
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Appendix 2.A: Survey Design, The 2001 Survey | |
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The Popular Legitimacy of the United States Supreme Court | |
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Theories of Institutional Legitimacy | |
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Measuring Institutional Legitimacy | |
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Accounting for Individual-Level Variability in Institutional Loyalty | |
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Discussion | |
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Institutional Loyalty, Positivity Bias, and the Alito Nomination | |
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The Confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court | |
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The Positivity Theory Hypotheses | |
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Assessments of the Confirmation Process | |
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The Models | |
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Determinants of Confirmation Preferences | |
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Discussion and Concluding Comments | |
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A Dynamic Test of the Positivity Bias Hypothesis | |
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Applying the Theory of Positivity Bias to Confirmations | |
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Measuring Change in Attitudes toward the U.S. Supreme Court | |
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The Model of Change in Institutional Support | |
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Findings | |
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Discussion and Concluding Comments | |
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Concluding Thoughts, Theory, and Policy | |
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Caveats, Puzzles, and Questions | |
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Survey Design: The 2005 Survey | |
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The Representativeness of the Panel Sample | |
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The Supreme Court and the U.S. Presidential Election of 2000: Wounds, Self-Inflicted or Otherwise? | |
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The Theory of Institutional Legitimacy | |
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Institutional Loyalty in the Aftermath of the Election | |
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Views of the Court's Opinion in Bush v. Gore | |
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Discussion and Concluding Comments | |
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Survey Design | |
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Measurement | |
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References | |
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Index | |